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web design is a series of languages working together. it can be a little (lot) harder to learn than other platforms because of this. took years for it to "click" for me, and we never formally covered it at all in my whole degree. (though we did write basic web servers in the networking class IIRC.)

Viking_Mudcrap posted...

if I wanted to learn how to add an HTML search bar code to a website and change the design, what type of language or classes would I need to take in a college?

roughly:

HTML: defines the search bar on the page

CSS: makes the search bar look fancy (or also does mundane sizing/positioning and related things)

JavaScript: make the search bar do something (and can manipulate both html and css, so you don't necessarily need to use either of them directly)

HTTP: the protocol ("language") the browser uses talk to the web server

Web Server (IIS/Apache): handles HTTP requests, returning a stream of text, which can be a text file on the server (myfile.html) or something generated by a program

Web Application: a program written in some language (php/c#/other) running on the server that can respond dynamically to the request, and generate custom webpages on the fly. (ie: generate page 3 of thread 12345 of forum xyz).

AJAX: rather than just GET whole documents, the client side can talk to the server without refreshing the whole page. so you could click a button, send a request to the server, and then when the data comes back, add it to the existing page.

also, if you mean "add an HTML search bar code to a[n existing] website", note that you can't add server-side code to an existing site. you can only modify the client-side, and maybe can talk to your own separate webserver, though AFAIK there can be restrictions about that kind of thing (since that's the kind of thing malware will do a lot).
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